The condition of the Entity and it's members.
Cultural Definition
A polity.
Any sovereign polity; a government. A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province. (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy. (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. "a state of being; a state of emergency"
(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle. "In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus." (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation. "The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far." (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation. "A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint." (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma. (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
High social standing or circumstance.
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity. "The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol." Rank; condition; quality. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince. (obsolete) Estate, possession.
(mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
State commonly refers to either the present condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or sub-entity (such as an autonomous territory of a country).
Pattern Expression
All Entities in Existence have a set of states.